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noun
A particle composed of strange quarks, down quarks, up quark. A strange cluster with three-light-flavor symmetry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: particle
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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History
strange (“strange quark”) + -on, Blend of strange + nucleon. From being a particle (-on), a form of nucleon, containing strange quarks.
